The much beloved, void-loving Clarice Lispector is finally “getting the Bolaño treatment.” | The New Republic

On the manifestation of Colonel Sanders and Johnnie Walker, Western food and beverage deities, in the theatrical version of Kafka on the Shore. | Flavorwire

Earth veins and ocean lungs: short fiction by William VanDenBerg. | Okey-Panky

On the difficulty of understanding Arabic literature without understanding the Arabic literary tradition. | The National

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